A landmark UN resolution led by Ghana declares the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity — but Western opposition and abstentions reveal enduring resistance to historical accountability, write ISAAC SANEY and JAMES COUNTS EARLY
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The Martin Luther King they want us to forget
Ramzy Baroud believes King’s ‘Beyond Vietnam’ speech, in which he linked the poverty of blacks at home to US imperialist adventurism abroad, remains as relevant today as it was in 1967
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The new BBC director-general now faces a test of public scrutiny, with his record at McKinsey and lack of newsroom experience under the spotlight, says STEPHEN ARNELL
From Vietnam to Iran, US leaders repeat a failed strategy of terror bombing – one that history shows cannot break a determined, resilient society, says DYLAN MURPHY
ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
The Morning Star publishes the speech by writer and editor JULIA BARD of the Jewish Socialists’ Group given at the paper’s annual conference at the weekend
ON JANUARY 15, millions in the US commemorated Martin Luther King’s Day. His famous “I Have a Dream” speech was referred to numerous times in media outlets as a reminder of the evil of racism, which is being resurrected in a most pronounced way in US society today.
But that is only one version of King that is allowed to be broadcast — at least in polite company. The other, the revolutionary, radical and global King is kept hidden from view.
Exactly one year before he was assassinated, on April 4 1967, King delivered a truly scathing speech that challenged the state apparatus of the liberal hierarchy which pretended to be his allies. It was titled “Beyond Vietnam.”
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